Quotes About Envy

Jealousy. It burns so hot, so bright. It devours you until you're just a smoking ruin with nothing left inside. Nothing but ashes.

Their insularity made him envious—not just of the men but all three of them. They were working together, two men and a girl, with evident ease. Even after the diving suit was on and she no longer looked like a girl, he was resentful of their shared knowledge, their nomenclature and expertise.

When had I stopped disparaging my parents' way of life and had instead begun to covet it?

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied. Justin

Oh God. I'm jealous of farts.

A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food's contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.

jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside

Jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from inside

Wasn't it true that the moment two women were together in the presence of their lovers their first idea was to do one another out of them? It was a law of nature!

For a moment he was filled with envy, revolt, and bitter jealousy. He asked himself why he was poor whilst others were rich.

Perhaps your envy counselled her Heathcliff to rob me of my treasures? But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those.

She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.

The notion of envying Catherine was incomprehensible to him, but the notion of grieving her, he understood clearly enough.

Je voyais qu'il étaient remplis d'une admiration stupide : elle est si démesurément supérieure à eux ... à n'importe qui sur terre, n'est-ce pas ?

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.

She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.

Invidiosul nu-l ponegreÈ™te decât pe cel care e mai bun decât el.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. The "indignant" person has for once the satisfaction of despising and treating a creature as "inferior," coupled with the feeling of his own superiority and rightness.